Senate Bill 1045

To: (1) Allow a child, stepchild or other dependent child to retain health insurance coverage under a parent's individual or group health insurance policy until the policy anniversary date after the date on which the child, stepchild or other dependent child attains the age of twenty-six; (2) prohibit certain health carriers from requiring the use of step therapy for drugs prescribed to treat behavioral health conditions or chronic, disabling or life-threatening conditions or diseases; (3) redefine "clinical peer" for the purposes of adverse determination and utilization reviews; (4) require health carriers to bear the burden of proving that certain health care services under adverse determination or utilization review are not medically necessary; and (5) require health carriers to provide certain clinical peers with the authority to reverse initial adverse determinations.

In the Senate

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In the Senate Mar 11 – May 13

1. Mar 11Introduced and sent to Insurance and Real Estate Committee
2. Mar 12Heard in Insurance and Real Estate Committee
3. Mar 22Insurance and Real Estate Committee recommended it
4. Apr 28Sent to Appropriations Committee
5. May 3Appropriations Committee recommended it
6. May 13Passed the Senate

In the House of Representatives May 14

1. May 14Arrived in the House of Representatives